Elementary and middle school teachers at Marathon Area Elementary and Venture School ...
Elementary and middle school teachers at Marathon Area Elementary and Venture School work collaboratively on developing learning targets and setting the expectations of high quality work. Students track their learning progress in a binder that moves with them in each grade. They engage in self-reflection through student-led conferences as they report on data collected and show examples of his/her work.The student explains why each piece of work was important, how it connected to their learning goals, and how that lead to demonstration of proficiency in the standards. Read more about these practices in the module.
Elementary and middle school teachers at Marathon Area Elementary and Venture School ...
Elementary and middle school teachers at Marathon Area Elementary and Venture School work collaboratively on developing learning targets and setting the expectations of high quality work. Students track their learning progress in a binder that moves with them in each grade. They engage in self-reflection through student-led conferences as they report on data collected and show examples of his/her work.The student explains why each piece of work was important, how it connected to their learning goals, and how that lead to demonstration of proficiency in the standards. Read more about these practices in the module.
The Senior Exit Portfolio Project (SEP) at West Salem High School was ...
The Senior Exit Portfolio Project (SEP) at West Salem High School was created to provide evidence that its graduates were career and college ready. The self-directed, active learning experience spans the entire senior year and includes the selection of an area of interest, a research paper, development of a project, maintenance of a portfolio of work and work artifacts, and a presentation of the research and project to a panel of community members. Each student is assigned a mentor related to the field of study to help link the research to practical application. The mentor connection and the use of a community panel has encouraged deep community participation and investment in the educational process. The SEP also provides an opportunity for full staff collaboration, promoting vertical integration of learning standards across all grade levels and content areas.
This post explores a teacher-facing view of personalized learning. Specifically, what implications ...
This post explores a teacher-facing view of personalized learning. Specifically, what implications does a personalized learning environment have on instructional practices? In a personalized learning environment, there is a fundamental shift to the relationship between learner and teacher. Learner and teacher are repositioned and their relationship becomes interdependent.
This posts focuses on learners and the shifts in role they experience ...
This posts focuses on learners and the shifts in role they experience as learning becomes a personalized, purposeful experience for them. An important change in role is a shift towards working on a customized learning path with the intent of achieveing proficiency.
In this lesson, students are taught to use the Haiku format as ...
In this lesson, students are taught to use the Haiku format as a way to solidify the theme of their paper. First students learn about the traditional Haiku structure, and then use the structure to reflect on the cohesiveness of the main ideas in a paper they have written.
Regardless of the information we encounter, experiences to which we are exposed ...
Regardless of the information we encounter, experiences to which we are exposed or examples we see, we only learn if we make a connection, experience some type of interaction or identify a context within which to place the experience. This post makes the connection that in reality, all learning is personal and explores the implications of this reality.
Personalized learning should not be devoid of standards. Standards give learners and ...
Personalized learning should not be devoid of standards. Standards give learners and educators a framework or matrix against which to evaluate and choose what to learn at what time and in what order. Quality standards can still provide plenty of room for learners and educators to co-design how learning will be approached, what goals will be most appropriate for the learner, what tools will be most useful, which strategies to employ, where and how learning will be accomplished and how best to show that learning has occurred.
A research brief, in which the last section goes into great detail ...
A research brief, in which the last section goes into great detail about the value of school and parent/community collaboration is vital for success in a personalized learning environment.
A fifth-grade teacher at Goodrich Elementary School in the Milwaukee Public Schools ...
A fifth-grade teacher at Goodrich Elementary School in the Milwaukee Public Schools reflects on his previous dissatisfaction with traditional teaching methods and the effect that personalized learning has had on student performance and behavior. In the video educators and learners describe meeting each learner where they are and using their knowledge as a resources.
This lesson is intended to help students create dynamic characters while working ...
This lesson is intended to help students create dynamic characters while working on beginning playwriting skills. It takes students through the steps of creating a non-human character and a scene and then transfers that information into writing an original monologue to perform. The lesson is easily adaptable to students in grades 5-12 and perhaps lower elementary as well, by adjusting the complexity of the characters created.
Using selected scenes from Shakespeare, students are asked to analyze a major ...
Using selected scenes from Shakespeare, students are asked to analyze a major character (protagonist or antagonist) and present a monologue or video recording of their personal interpretation of the character's motivations and life experience. The lesson will take approximately 4 class periods to complete.
Common Core standards are the gateway to personalized learning. The Common Core ...
Common Core standards are the gateway to personalized learning. The Common Core standards: • provide high-quality, common benchmarks of academic success that all students must meet • make it possible to generate useful, comparable data on individual student achievement that can be used to design customized learning pathways for every student • provides students assurance that by the end of their K-12 journey they will be ready for success in college and career. • cover the breadth of academic knowledge and skills that all students need to be successful as well as provide a critical foundation that educators can use to build depth into the learning experience.
This blog post pushes educators to make connections from personalized learning to ...
This blog post pushes educators to make connections from personalized learning to cultural responsiveness. The call to action is to enhance the learning experience by incorporating each learner's culture, strengths and history into everyday projects, assignments and demonstrations of proficiency.
This video shows how customized learning paths allow learners and teachers to ...
This video shows how customized learning paths allow learners and teachers to collaboratively set learning goals and understand their progress towards mastery/goals.Â
In this video, a father of a learner describes the positive shift ...
In this video, a father of a learner describes the positive shift to personalized learning. He specifically speaks about customized learning paths and how they have impacted his child's educational experience.
In this activity, students conduct a constructivist warm-up activity with sand and ...
In this activity, students conduct a constructivist warm-up activity with sand and water. Next, they receive brief introductory information about erosion, and basic vocabulary is front-laoded through the use of Frayer Model graphic organizers. Students then conduct simple investigations to collect data on erosion rates of different Earth materials (waves, wind, water, glaciers). Students will rotate through the stations (one lab for each They will rank their investigations to evaluate the most efficient agent of erosion. This is a quick-hit hands-on lesson that would best be used to introduce the different causes of weathering and erosion. While not the most rigorous, it does provide engagement and the opportunity for all to learn in a multi-modal set of activities.
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